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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 was awarded to Enrico Fermi "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"

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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium...

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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1942, Fermi relocated to the Chicago Met Lab, where he built an experimental reactor pile under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Construction was completed on December 1 and the reactor went…

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J. Robert Oppenheimer is considered the "father of the atomic bomb" because of his work on the Manhattan Project developing the first atomic bomb in 1945. These nuclear weapons were used for the first, and only, time against the Japanese during World War II, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this speech, Oppenheimer addresses the Association of Los Alamos Scientists a few months after the bombings.

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